Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.
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I’ve been iterating on my portfolio for the last few days whilst desperately applying for a bunch of gigs and last night I finally got it into a good place. I’m not sure why it took so dang long but some problems are just stubborn and...
Guillaume Berry just launched a new site for the type foundry Marmite Defontes and by golly if it just sure ain’t the prettiest/fastest website I’ve seen today. This project is a great reminder that speed is more important than almost...
Last month I redesigned my website, so it’s about time to do it again. This one includes a bunch of interesting details to talk through but perhaps it’s better to call this a “reshuffle” more than a “redesign.” i. # I’ve replaced...
I’ve been really enjoying brr, a blog from a chap who works in IT at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. They write about basically everything, from hunkering down for winter... South Pole Station sits at near-exactly 90°...
Whoa, @maya. I’ve never heard of a black Book of Hours like this one before. What an absurdly beautiful thing: The lettering is inscribed in silver and gold and placed within borders ornamented with flowers, foliage and grotesques, on...
This piece by Dr Eleanor Janega on successor states and websites is so damn good it hurts. She compares the “fall” of Rome to what’s happening to the social network that’s now nothing more than a bunch of thugs in a trench coat: We are...
For years I’ve tried to make the ending of whatever piece I’m writing have a little thump right at the end, a bit of drama to make the machine stop. I can’t remember where or who I stole this technique from but at some point I noticed...
I love everything about Guide Guide by Cameron McEfee—it’s a plugin for design tools that allows you to create complex grid systems real easy. On the website, Cameron writes: We’ve gone soft. Our modern design tools, great as they are,...
I’ve been thinking about what I want from a new gig. Lately too much of my time has been spent working alone, making things in a bubble, pitching ideas in isolation. It’s pretty lonely! How do I fix that? What I want is a co-conspirator...
I’m teleported back in time 200 years to the warmth of Morse code and folded letters as I walk in the door—I can almost see the haberdasheries and cobblestone paths that crowd the outside world through the windows as I turn back to close...
A blog is for loving things whole-heartedly and so I must inform you that I love Parallax by Atlas Sound. It’s an album that I come back to once a year and it reminds me of cold, snowy days at uni (was there really snow? That doesn’t...
Paul Ford archived his father’s poetry and writing, uploading it to the Internet Archive: My father’s last decade was one of relentless downsizing, from apartment to assisted living to nursing home, shedding belongings, throwing away...
Fixed a few things around these parts today; I started using Fakir for headings and tidied up a lot of stuff on smaller screens. The biggest change is that the headings now change size depending on the width of the container that they’re...
I never liked Untitled Sans or its brother, Untitled Serif. There was a sort of anti-design-designer thing going on with them. They screamed “I am extremely from New York City” for some reason, as if they were designed for ugly...
Last month Mandy Brown wrote about how she struggled to quit her job and this bit hit me like a sledgehammer: “I assumed that all the risk was in moving, that by definition staying put was the prudent option.” Same! For months I’ve been...